Chapter 28: Vanished into Thin Air
Half a day later, Cao Ni also rushed over from elsewhere. Seeing Feng Shi, he wasn’t even willing to grant him a glance, going directly to Xiao Yuhui to understand the situation.
Feng Shi was full of novelty right now, his mind focused on the white dumpling, so he didn’t fuss about it. Anyway, with the Eldest Senior Brother present, the other party wouldn’t do anything to him.
The cultivation method Yan Cheng practiced couldn’t be interrupted, so he would definitely act again tonight. They just didn’t know if it would still be in that cave.
However, Feng Shi figured that as long as they followed the shadow monster coming to catch people, they shouldn’t go wrong.
Xiao Yuhui nodded. “Then we’ll split up tonight. This is an Instant Transmission Talisman. Once one person activates it, as long as the other ignites theirs, we can quickly regroup.”
As he spoke, he handed the two talismans in his hand to Feng Shi and Cao Ni respectively.
Feng Shi took the talisman, thinking this was good stuff. It was just that too few people in the cultivation world could draw this thing, so it sold for a ridiculously high price.
After discussing the details, the three separated to different locations in the city to wait for dark.
Before leaving, Feng Shi placed the little Free-range Chicken on the bed and instructed with a solemn face, “You are not allowed to run around alone tonight. There are monsters outside that eat children! Especially good-looking ones like you!”
Shen Songhe, forced to listen to the lecture: “…”
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“Did you hear me!” Feng Shi shook the child’s arm.
At this moment, Shen Songhe only wanted to pry open this person’s brain to see what kind of tofu brains were inside! But in the end, he just glared at him, then turned over on the bed, lying down with his back to him.
Feng Shi looked at the child’s round back of the head, eyebrows raised, feeling a bit unhappy in his heart. “Tsk! rebellious at such a young age. Needs a beating!”
Then he couldn’t control his hand. With a smack, he hit the little dumpling’s butt through the quilt.
After hitting, a strong sense of guilt instantly surged in Feng Shi. Before the other party could react, he chose to flee the scene quickly, leaving only a sentence: “Okay, I’ll be back soon!”
Behind him, Shen Songhe flipped up violently, but the figure was long gone.
Looking at the dim sky outside the window, Shen Songhe gripped the quilt tightly. Under his small fist, the rough quilt cover had already been rubbed into a big hole by the immense force.
At the same time, Feng Shi, who was flying over eaves and walls dashingly, slipped and sneezed hard.
At night, Feng Shi and the others waited until the fourth watch.
A heavy fog rose in the city, blocking vision. There was no moonlight, only the lanterns in front of a few households, refracting large halos of hazy light.
Feng Shi squinted, looking carefully at those points of light, trying to identify the moving one among them.
Not far from Feng Shi’s stakeout position was the guillotine where the black flood dragon’s corpse hung. A faint stench wafted over from time to time.
Feng Shi rubbed his eyes and switched to another roof to continue squatting.
Not long after, the talisman Xiao Yuhui gave him suddenly heated up against his chest.
Feng Shi reached out and took out the talisman. He saw the golden runes on the talisman flashing rhythmically like breathing. He reacted, hurriedly clamping the talisman between two fingers and chanting a spell to burn it.
Closing his eyes, after a slight sense of weightlessness, Xiao Yuhui’s voice came from beside Feng Shi.
The other party pressed a large hand on his shoulder. “Second Junior Brother is already chasing. We should hurry over too.”
Feng Shi nodded, hiding his aura and figure to follow the other’s footsteps closely.
Moments later, he saw Cao Ni’s back, as well as that massive black shadow.
Although huge, the figure moved very agilely. Its fish tail slid on the ground without making any sound, and the inexplicably vanished bamboo lantern was indeed still carried in its hand.
Feng Shi looked at its other hand.
It was gripping a woman who had already fainted. Just like in Feng Shi’s encounter, the shadow monster used its strength with precision, not hurting the person inside.
And that night when Feng Shi was captured, the other party’s movements had been very gentle, even leaving its own lantern to light up the cave for him.
This at least showed that it cherished these women very much…
Feng Shi couldn’t figure out why.
Was this its own consciousness, or Yan Cheng’s consciousness?
After leaving Linyu City and entering the deep forest, the fog became thicker. Only the lantern in the monster’s hand emitted light that could penetrate the fog to distinguish direction.
In the quiet night, there was no sound in the deep forest, a complete dead silence.
Feng Shi and the others followed closely. The monster walked fast too, winding around in the dense forest, and finally stopped in front of a cave.
Feng Shi recognized that this was not the cave from that day.
This cave was located deeper and more hidden. Many hallucinogenic herbs grew around it. If he didn’t know these herbs and the antidote, things probably wouldn’t have gone so smoothly today.
A barrier was also set up around this cave, opening only when the monster entered, then closing immediately.
Feng Shi exchanged a glance with Xiao Yuhui, then they exerted force together, preparing to break the barrier.
A barrier set by a Golden Core cultivator—with the three of them joining hands, it might not be impossible to break.
Cao Ni hadn’t spoken the whole way, but when help was needed, he didn’t hesitate much.
With the three working together, a hole was quickly torn in the barrier.
Feng Shi rushed into the cave first, only to see red light flashing inside. Two rotting corpses of women lay at the entrance, seemingly dead for some time.
The formation had already started.
The woman trapped in the formation had woken up. At this moment, she was weeping and wailing, unable to struggle, blood flying out from the cut on her wrist as it was eroded by the formation.
Seeing Feng Shi and the others, the woman cried even more heart-wrenchingly, shouting with blue lips: “Save me! Save me!”
Feng Shi didn’t see the black shadow monster in the cave.
It had actually vanished into thin air.
“Don’t be afraid, we will get you out.”
Xiao Yuhui comforted the woman verbally and tried to rescue her, but unexpectedly, this formation was abnormally powerful and didn’t allow outsiders to destroy it. The strong backlash made Xiao Yuhui’s face turn ugly, seemingly enduring pain.
“Senior Brother!” Feng Shi supported the retreating Xiao Yuhui.
The formation emitted a deafening hum. A moment later, a huge demon beast suddenly pounced from the floating air, landing in the center of the formation.
The woman was just an ordinary person; having never seen such a thing, she was instantly scared out of her wits, screaming repeatedly. Coupled with excessive blood loss, she fainted several times.
Feng Shi and the others outside the formation wanted to save her but couldn’t find a way to start.
Smelling the blood on the woman, the demon beast’s blood-red pupils dilated instantly, and it pounced on the woman, biting down.
The woman screamed and died in the blink of an eye.
But the formation didn’t stop there. Instead, it continued to greedily absorb the blood on the ground, then shifted its target to the demon beast in the formation until it was cannibalized completely.
Only then did the formation gradually fade. The red light receded, leaving only that dilapidated bamboo lantern still emitting warm light.
In the huge cave, another dry and broken female corpse was added. Watching all this, Feng Shi felt a wave of churning in his stomach.
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